Month May 1939 Calendar

About Month of May Calendar

• May is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. May is a month of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere and spring in the Northern Hemisphere (Summer in Europe). Therefore May in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of November in the Northern Hemisphere and vice versa.
  
  May symbols: The birthstone of May is the emerald which is emblematic of love and success. The May birth flower is the Lily of the Valley and the Crataegus monogyna. The mayflower Epigaea repens is a North American harbinger of May, and the floral emblem of both Nova Scotia and Massachusetts. Its native range extends from Newfoundland south to Florida, west to Kentucky in the southern range, and to Northwest Territories in the north. The zodiac signs for the month of May are Taurus (until May 20) and Gemini (May 21 onwards).

Historical Events for May, 1939

• Day of Week 3rd » The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
• Day of Week 13th » The first commercial Frequency Modulation or FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.
• Day of Week 14th » Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
• Day of Week 21st » The Canadian National War Memorial (Canada) National War Memorial is unveiled by George VI King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa.
• Day of Week 22nd » World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
• Day of Week 23rd » The United States Navy called U.S. Navy submarine USS Sailfish (SS-192) called USS 'Squalus' sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian n
• Day of Week 29th » The Albanian Fascism or fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.

Famous Birthdays on May in 1939

• 1st » Judy Collins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1st » Victor Davies, Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor
• 1st » Max Robinson, American journalist (d. 1988)
• 2nd » Sumio Iijima, Japanese physicist
• 3rd » Jonathan Harvey (composer) or Jonathan Harvey, English composer and educator (d. 2012)
• 4th » Neil Fox (rugby league) e.g Neil Fox, English rugby player and coach
• 4th » Paul Gleason, American actor (d. 2006)
• 4th » Amos Oz, Israeli journalist and author
• 4th » Leon Rochefort, Canadian ice hockey player
• 5th » Ray Gosling, English journalist, author, and activist (d. 2013)
• 6th » Eddie C. Campbell, American singer and guitarist
• 7th » Sidney Altman, Canadian-American biologist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry e.g Nobel Prize laureate
• 7th » Ruggero Deodato, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter
• 7th » Ruud Lubbers, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
• 7th » Jimmy Ruffin, American singer
• 7th » Clive Soley, Baron Soley, English politician
• 8th » Paul Drayton (athlete) known as Paul Drayton, American sprinter (d. 2010)
• 9th » Ralph Boston, American long jumper
• 9th » Pierre Desproges, French journalist and actor (d. 1988)
• 9th » Ion Țiriac, Romanian tennis player and manager
• 11th » Carlos Lyra, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 11th » Dante Tiñga, Filipino jurist and politician
• 12th » Cyril Chantler, English pediatrician and academic
• 12th » Jalal Dabagh, Kurdish journalist and politician
• 12th » Miltiadis Evert, Greek politician, 69th List of mayors of Athens known as Mayor of Athens (d. 2011)
• 12th » Reg Gasnier, Australian rugby player and coach (d. 2014)
• 12th » Ron Ziegler, American politician, White House Press Secretary (d. 2003)
• 13th » Hildrun Claus, German long jumper
• 13th » Peter Frenkel, German race walker
• 13th » Harvey Keitel, American actor and producer
• 15th » Dorothy Shirley, English high jumper
• 17th » Hugh Dykes, Baron Dykes, English politician
• 17th » Gary Paulsen, American author
• 18th » Silvana Armenulić, Bosnian singer and actress
• 18th » Patrick Cormack, Baron Cormack called Patrick Cormack, British politician
• 18th » Giovanni Falcone, Italian judge (d. 1992)
• 19th » Livio Berruti, Italian sprinter
• 19th » James Fox, English actor and singer
• 19th » Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong-American actress
• 19th » Jānis Lūsis, Latvian javelin thrower
• 19th » Dick Scobee, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1986)
• 20th » Balu Mahendra, Sri Lankan-Indian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
• 20th » John David Bingham Younger, Scottish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tweeddale
• 21st » Heinz Holliger, Swiss oboe player, composer, and conductor
• 22nd » Dick Berk, American drummer and bandleader (d. 2014)
• 22nd » Paul Winfield, American actor (d. 2004)
• 23rd » Michel Colombier, French-American composer and conductor (d. 2004)
• 23rd » Reinhard Hauff, German director and screenwriter
• 23rd » Jack McCarthy (writer) named Jack McCarthy, American poet (d. 2013)
• 25th » Dixie Carter, American actress (d. 2010)
• 25th » Ian McKellen, English actor
• 26th » Merab Kostava, Georgian educator, poet, and activist (d. 1989)
• 26th » Jaki Liebezeit German drummer (Can (band) called Can)
• 26th » Brent Musburger, American sportscaster
• 27th » Simon Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns, English courtier and businessman
• 27th » Yves Duhaime, Canadian politician
• 27th » Sokratis Kokkalis, Greek businessman
• 27th » Gerald Ronson, English businessman and philanthropist
• 27th » Don Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pozo-Seco Singers)
• 29th » Al Unser, American race car driver
• 30th » Michael J. Pollard, American actor
• 30th » Dieter Quester, Austrian race car driver
• 30th » Tim Waterstone, Scottish businessman, founded Waterstones
• 31st » Terry Waite, English humanitarian and author

Famous Deaths for May 1939

• 3rd » Madeleine Desroseaux, French author and poet (b. 1873)
• 6th » Konstantin Somov, Russian-French painter (b. 1869)
• 11th » Yevgeny Miller, Latvian-Russian general (b. 1867)
• 22nd » Ernst Toller, German playwright (b. 1893)
• 22nd » Jiří Mahen, Czech author and playwright (b. 1882)
• 25th » Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer (b. 1868)
• 26th » Charles Horace Mayo, American physician, co-founded Mayo Clinic (b. 1865)
• 27th » Joseph Roth, Austrian-French journalist and author (b. 1894)
• 29th » Ursula Ledóchowska, Austrian-Polish nun and saint, founded the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (b. 1865)
• 30th » Floyd Roberts, American race car driver (b. 1904)

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